New Ted Backdoor Hides Inside Victims' Own HAProxy Builds to Intercept Web Traffic

A previously undocumented Linux toolkit has been found compiled directly into the trojanized HAProxy load balancers of two South Korean organizations, where it intercepted web traffic and served altered pages to selected visitors. The at…
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